Only halfway through New York Climate week - here's a little cheatsheet for the key AI greenwashing tropes you're going to hear. Please go check our latest investigation into NVIDIA's unjustified climate claims here: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

Have you got a photo or image that really illustrates the #WarOnWalking, at any scale and in any context? Send it to us and we might turn it into another poster in this series. Thanks! #UrbanTruth

Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sometimes the WAR ON WALKING results in no sidewalks at all. Sometimes they put “something” in — but does that really make things walkable for anyone except those without any other choices? The #WARonWALKING takes many forms, but it’s always about making things comfortable for vehicles, not people.

It’s really interesting to me that every philosopher I recognised in this piece is male. Not that female philosophers are immune to professional risks but it recalls to mind Lord of the Flies as a hypothesis not on children’s behaviour, but specifically of privileged male behaviour.

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 4w ago

Most philosophers prefer to keep madness at a safe distance. But to Wouter Kusters, the relationship is uncomfortably close: "Theoretical reflections have their practical counterpart in the breakdown of the mad."

Yeah so just your reminder that cloud storage isn't and never has been *YOUR* storage. If someone doesn't want you to have something, Google *CAN* (and apparently will) delete it for them first and ask questions later.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

However long it’s been, I can still feel humbled in my trauma healing journey by the casual reflexive kindnesses of people who grew up fully loved & supported. Like the phrase “let’s find out together” 😭 straight to the soul, that one.

Thinking strongly about the saying “not every game is for every one”

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have seen some people get a bit gloomy about the fact that Bluesky is losing some numbers, but I think chasing reach and network effects is probably where social media went wrong in the first place

Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...

giving a subtle thumbs up of encouragement when the crown prince hesitates in the moment before he must ritually sacrifice me

Data centres are hell-bent on further bloating their already-massive energy hunger. The fact they mostly fake support new renewables is part of what makes them such a huge threat to climate goals and such a warm friend to fossil fuels. New vid + piece here: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Saw this heavily pregnant possum stroll out in daylight, heedless of the very curious pedestrians admiring her, going for what I guess is the possum equivalent of a midnight snack. Soothing some cravings? I got as close as I thought would be polite for the photo.

Pave paradise, put up a data centre...

The thing about "literacy as gatekeeping" is that literacy is a learned thing, not a taught thing. IME, any given communicator is *aching* for you to engage with their text, and will happily give you the tools if they can, but the limiting factor is you, yourself.

Saturday morning message Every time you learn something new, your brain’s micro architecture changes. This is the formation of new synaptic connections. These fibers actively build the infrastructure required to process, store, retrieve new information. You are what you learn. #Pinks

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

I like this. Though when feedback channels are through forms rather than in-person, a limitation of the format is the inability to ask questions to guide feedback. An interesting tension since I’ve seen forms create that interpersonal barrier specially to protect from unempathetic feedback.

Daniel Huffman@pinakographos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I heard today from someone that she encountered this piece of mine in a class! I had hoped it would circulate around, but I don't think I'd heard actual confirmation until now. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/c...

So very about this, yes Reminds me of the “cinema sins” problem in fandom too, if critique is not “which character is best/worst” sometimes it’s just “where are the holes” when what I prefer is the conversation; “if this is true, then what does that mean in this context, and how do I feel about it?”

Mo Drammeh 🦇@curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This one took a while to write. Put out an essay about the links between fandom and consumerism, and its effect on how we interpret fiction. Hope y'all enjoy!

Folks, I hate to tell you this, but if you spent more time reading actual books, or otherwise engaging with media created by human beings, and less time making up imaginary "tells", you would be much more able to spot AI slop without resorting to a list of "tells".

Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 5mo ago

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

Melbourne folks - anyone been to the aquarium with a wheelchair lately? It's been like 10 years since we've been there and their website isn't very encouraging. I'm especially wondering if there's somewhere safe we can be dropped off/picked up?

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

sinceyouarrived.world

So, I'm running an informal survey about LARP and neurodiversity, with a focus on autism and ADHD, because I'm super curious about the intersections as an AuDHD larper. Anyone can fill it out, and anyone can see the results: forms.gle/GHCQFuZbf9Fp...

Informal Survey About LARP and Neurodiversity

This is a super informal survey about live-action roleplaying (LARP) and how it overlaps with neurodiversity, with a focus on ADHD and autism. This isn't formal research, and is just being run by an A...

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“Housing supply has never been primarily determined…by what planning allows.. determined by whether projects financially viable - interest rates, construction $, financing conditions, labour & developer risk appetite.. binding constraints, always thefifthestate.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?...

‘Abundance’ and why trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew

Trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew, argues Tim Sneesby in this article that tackles the truth about housing supply – 95 per cent of applications for developmen...

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Thinking about this a lot: "...when local enterprises rely on outside platforms for essential services...money steadily leaks out of the community. Even when the business itself is local, the infrastructure beneath it may be extractive." aeon.co/essays/lesso...

9% of the global population, and they only receive 1% of the world's aid; stats that definitely tell a story. Teenage girls have such powerful creativity. They create communities; they create culture, language. Investing in teenage girls definitely goes a long way. www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

Calls for Australia to invest in adolescent girls, amid war in the Middle East

The federal government is being urged to invest for the wellbeing of adolescent girls, as the war in the Middle East continues to impact vulnerable communities across Asia Pacific. Despite adolescent ...

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Local Melbourne roleplayers! Is anyone free Saturday afternoon/evening (ANZAC Day) from 4:30 to 7:30, and want to play in one of my freeforms? I'm presenting it at Caligo Presents, and we're currently low on numbers: events.humanitix.com/caligo-mundi... (1/2)

Caligo Mundi Presents 2026!

Caligo Mundi hosts 8 Australian Freeform LARPS over a weekend.

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Blueberry buns cleaned up~

Kind of love that the conversation spoke about what we did in the past (squatted and built public housing) when there were rising encampments of people experiencing homelessness here: theconversation.com/homeless-cam...

Homeless camps are rising as affordability falls. It’s a problem Australia has solved before

In the 1940s, tent cities and ‘shanty’ settlements appeared across Australia, as families struggled to find homes. The government acted then – and needs to now.

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Next time someone asks you “where’s the data on AI impacts on water use” tell them to ring Ryde council, ey?

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6mo ago

"Ryde council claimed that housing projects have been delayed because Sydney Water could not meet water supply capacity, with much of the available supply already allocated to data centres" The part of Sydney where I grew up has become a major hotbed for data centre development:

Got sick. Played Crusader Kings 3. My first king was much loved by all, and died while partying. Big shoes to fill for the not-so-well-liked son who was faced with constant rebellions. His wife hated him so I gave him a 2nd, who became his soul mate after exchanging bad poetry.

Anybody who thinks you need a dog for a morning routine hasn’t had a cat perform a long-jump straight onto their chest to stop you sleeping in because they want to go outside and have their morning interactive play session

a man is making a funny face with his tongue out while a man in a red jacket looks on .

Alt: a sweaty man [Stiles from Teen Wolf] is making an exaggerated face of exhaustion with his mouth open, panting, and falls to the ground; while a man in a red jacket holding a whistle [sports teacher] looks on, unmoved.

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